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Speaking on 21st Century First Amendment Tomorrow

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at an event organized by the Federal Communications Bar Association.

It’s actually a CLE, at an amazing venue–the fabulously fabulous Newseum–and an amazing line-up. Since it’s not really posted online, I figured I’d post about it.

(As for why I’ve been posting less recently… I’ve been super busy law-professoring: teaching and researching/writing a legal article. Conference-speaking is a nice change. I also recently helped Lincoln, Nebraska’s government apply for the Google Fiber Sweepstakes! But I did pose a competition question to the FCC Chairman via the Washington Post, which ended up on a far more awesome blog than my own.)

So I’ve been living la vida law-professor.

The best part of such vida, beyond getting to use terms like res ipsa loquitor and ipso facto in my daily life, is getting to discuss important issues like the First Amendment’s future with thoughtful people, like those speaking tomorrow. Here’s an agenda. I speak on the last panel, and will probably speak last to disagree vigorously with all the nice people on my panel. I was told I was the only “pro-regulatory” person on the panel–but I consider myself, you know, “pro-citizen,” “pro-speech,” and “pro-other-good-things-like-chocolate.”

I’m sure the lineup has been updated since the one posted in the FCBA newsletter…

Wednesday,March 31, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Media Regulation and the First Amendment in the 21st Century [CLE]

Presented by the FCBA Mass Media Committee in association with the Freedom Forum & the ABA Forum on Communications Law

Agenda

1:00 – 1:05 p.m. WELCOME

1:05 – 1:35 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

1:35 – 2:30 p.m. TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM: WHAT ARE THE REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS OF THE EVOLVING MEDIA ENVIRONMENT ?

Moderator: TBD

Speakers:

Alan Davidson, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Google